Thursday, October 24, 2013

Check out our new website!

We are going to start to send out the newsletters every
Wed from now on so that you know when to expect them and can read the recipes
and travel hints as well as see our specials.

We are still in the process of finishing the new
website, but you can shop it now and browse the products that we have put
online so far (only about 600 of 1400)… If you want to test the site for us and
place an order we will be giving you 10% off plus we are running a discount on
shipping as well.

Rest assured Celtic
Attic is not being replaced, just updated and it will take another month or
so to finish it up!A Celtic Calling is going to be our
shopping portal and have all the newsletters posted as well as happenings at
our store and any book tours and book release information from herself,
Kristin.

Halloween is almost
upon us… We will be sending out the giveaway basket in just a few short
weeks.Halloween GIVEAWAY! We will be
giving away a Spooky Basket! (Gift Basket includes - 2 Halloween coffee mugs,
Irish or Scottish Tea, Irish Candy Treats bag! Value $50.00) Enter Now!
Anyone that enters now, will be put into the Halloween Giveaway drawing... http://www.celticattic.com/contact_us/free_giveaway.htm

Our friend Josie V just opened up a Gift shop that we
are calling Artist Alley Gifts.So all
your Favorite Celtic Attic goodies are now in the new store location along with
a wide variety of other gifts and jewelry.We have balloon baskets, gift baskets and so much more!It is a Celtic Paradise.We have just launched our line of Fairy Bath
products.Soon to be added to the
website.The store address is 408
Pacific Ave, Bremerton WA 98337.For
those that would love to visit and get your Celtic on, drop by Tues-Sat
11am-6PM.

What to
know where Celtic Attic will be and what shows we will be selling at?Visit our Happenings
Page for more info.

Here is the deal of the month at the Celtic Attic.
The Celtic Attic Cookbook is now available for FREE in PDF format. That's
right, FREE. We have decided to give you this gift so you can cook
some of these great ideas for the upcoming holidays! Email Kristin@celticattic.com if you would
like your free pdf copy of this book.

Interesting Halloween facts:

Halloween
is actually the night before where lanterns (Gaelic: samhnag), Hallowfires
and such are supposed to scare the souls that will emerge at midnight,
away from your house. Samhuinn is also used in Gaelic for the entire month
of November. The name "Samhain" entered Canadian folklore as
"Sam Hain", the name of the guy doll which children would wheel
round

Halloween
customs in Scotland these days consist chiefly of children going
door-to-door "guising" (or "Galoshin" on the south
bank of the lower Clyde) dressing up and offering entertainment of various
sorts in return for gifts. The Witchcraft Act of 1735 contained a clause
preventing the consumption of pork and pastry comestibles on Halloween
although these days sausage rolls seem to a popular treat for children -
the act was repealed in the 1950s.

The
children are invariably dressed up as something supernatural or spooky
and the entertainment usually consists of singing, telling a poem or joke
etc. They don't 'trick' you if you do not give, as in America. However,
after the showing of ET in the early 80s, the influence of American
"trick or treating" seems to have become more prevalent at
least in England. Hollowed out turnips with candles in them are sometimes
displayed or carried. Note that many children in America do not 'trick'
either.

Halloween
parties often consisted of various games, for instance 'Dooking fur
aiples' where the children had to bite apples floating in a basin of
water, once they had one by the teeth they could retrieve and obtain it.
Sometimes flour would be sprinkled on the surface of the water.

For
younger children a more modern game is 'Forkin fur aiples', an easier
task, where the children stood on a chair and held a fork handle in their
teeth, taking aim, they would release it into the basin of apples and
water and retrieve and keep any apple they so skewered. Another game was
'treacle scones' where children had to eat a scone covered in treacle hanging
on a piece of string.

One
custom associated with Halloween in the Western Isles was to put two
large nuts in the fire. These were supposed to represent yourself and
your intended spouse. If the nuts jumped together when they warmed up
then this was deemed to be a good omen, but if they jumped apart then it
was time to look for someone else!

Cookie Spiders:

Take your favorite cookie recipe and bake or use
ready made rolls from the Market, or you can even buy them at Costco if you are
out of time. Purchase Betty Crocker
Decorating Icing in White and Black.Take the White Frosting and spray to make a web on the cookie.Use a raisin for the spider body and place
it in the middle of the web.Now add
black frosting to the raisin edges of the raisin to form the legs.Spider Cookies!

All
Sales Items are now at least 50% off, so order now for all your holiday
shopping needs. We created a page with all the new items we are discontinuing
from our product line. We don't usually do this, but they are taking up space
in the warehouse. Our overstock is your pocketbooks gain.

About Me

I am a small business owner and love what I do. It has allowed me to raise my boys and teach them about life and work and doing the best they can in whatever path they choose. Visit us at our store in Bremerton WA 408 Pacific Ave or online at celticattic.com